Section: 4.2 - Concepts of Psychiatric Emergencies | Mental Health Nursing | NextGenU.org
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Student Learning Outcomes:
- Explain three characteristics of psychiatric emergencies.
- Identify populations vulnerable to psychiatric emergencies.
- Describe the types and management of psychiatric emergencies.
- Discuss the nurse’s role in psychiatric emergencies.
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Students mustMark as done
Required Learning Resources and Activities
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Students mustView
Read the definitions provider by The American Psychiatric Association’s Task Force on Psychiatric Emergency Services assembled in 2002. (1 minute)
John Hopkins Medicine
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Read section ‘Introduction’ of the article. (4 minutes)
Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Students mustView
Read the first two paragraphs of section ‘Introduction’. (1 minute)
Medical Journal Armed Forces India
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Students mustView
Read the entire article. (2 minutes)
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Students mustView
Read pages 5, 6, and 10. (11 minutes)
National Alliance on Mental Illness
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Read sections ‘Overview’ and ‘Assessing the patients with mental health problems’. (8 minutes)
Oxford Handbook of Emergency Nursing (2 ed.), Oxford Medicine Online
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Read the section ‘Guideline: Use Objective Scales to Assess Agitation’. (2 minutes)
The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Read the first four paragraphs of the section ‘General Principles’. (3 minutes)
International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions 2020
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Read section ‘GENERAL DE-ESCALATION GUIDELINES’. (22 minutes)
The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Read the entire presentation. (4 minutes)
Psychiatric Times
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Read section ‘Deliberate self-harm’. (4 minutes)
Oxford Handbook of Emergency Nursing (2 ed.), Oxford Medicine Online
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Read section ‘Self-destructive and suicidal behavior’. (5 minutes)
Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
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Read the entire article. (9 minutes)
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
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Read sections ‘Protocol 2: Interventions during an episode of psychomotor agitation’ and ‘Protocol 3: After an episode of psychomotor agitation’. (15 minutes)
BMC Psychiatry Journal
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Read the section ‘Sedation and restraints of patients’. (4 minutes)
Oxford Handbook of Emergency Nursing (2 ed.), Oxford Medicine Online
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Students mustMark as done
Slide Deck Presentation
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Quiz: Unit 4.2
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